From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37170 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fatal format file error; I'm stymied Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:17:44 +0100 Message-ID: <472ADD28.8090106@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193991506 4062 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2007 08:18:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:18:26 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users , Norbert Preining Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 02 09:18:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InrjY-0004zx-Fd for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:18:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3EC1FB38; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:18:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26477-01-17; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:18:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D1E1FAB3; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:18:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC27D1FA67 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:18:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26129-01-18 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:17:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF261FA4C for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:17:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 1220 for multiple; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:17:48 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:37170 Archived-At: Ernesto Schirmacher wrote: > After many years as a LaTeX user I'm attempting to switch over to ConTeXt. > > I recently upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 7.10 (on an AMD64 machine) and got the TeXLive and ConTeXt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. I tried compiling a very simple document: > > \starttext > > Hello this is \ConTeXt. > > \stoptext > > using the command: texexec simple.tex and got the following output on my terminal: > > TeXExec | processing document 'simple.tex' > TeXExec | no ctx file found > TeXExec | tex processing method: context > TeXExec | TeX run 1 > TeXExec | writing option file simple.top > TeXExec | using randomseed 898 > TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex > TeXExec | tex format: cont-en > This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) > %$-line parsing enabled. > (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) > ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) > TeXExec | runtime: 0.177424 > > > Clearly something is not working properly and I suspect the incompatibility between > This is pdfTeXk... > and > ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex > is the source of all trouble here. > > Could someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this? pdfetex is obsolete now; there should only be a pdftex binary since ubunto is based on debian i assume that they use the same packages, so i cc to norbert Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________